2014年CRI 中国和委内瑞拉签署多项协议扩大合作 台风麦德姆来袭

 

Venezuela and China have signed a raft of new bilateral¹ agreements as the two countries attempt to broaden their cooperation.

The signing of the agreements has been overseen² by visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro.

The two sides have signed nearly 40 new agreements in the areas including technology and innovation, oil and mining, finance, land transportation, infrastructure³ and agriculture.

Xi Jinping also says China stands ready to expand satellite technology transfers to Venezuela.

For his part, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says political contacts between the two sides remains⁴ solid.

The Chinese president is in Caracas for the third leg of his tour of Latin America, which will also take him to Cuba.

Another powerful tropical storm is approaching China.

Typhoon Matmo is currently tracking northwest toward the northern tip of Taiwan.

The storm, which is currently packing winds of 130-kilometers per hour, is tracking directly toward Taipei, and is expected to hit the island sometime in the next 24-hours.

Meantime, the death toll⁵ from Typhoon Rammasun, described as one of the strongest storms to hit southern China in decades, has now risen to 33.

A number of new deaths are being reported in Yunnan in connection with the storm.

1 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

2 overseen   

v.监督，监视( oversee的过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was overseen stealing the letters. 他被人撞见在偷信件。 来自辞典例句
• It will be overseen by ThomasLi, director of IBM China Research Laboratory. 该实验室由IBM中国研究院院长李实恭(ThomasLi)引导。 来自互联网

3 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。